Open AccessGluing idioms back together: A phraseo-combinatorial analysis
Author(s) -
Manfred Sailer,
Sascha Bargmann
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2021.10
Subject(s) - focus (optics) , computer science , character (mathematics) , autonomy , linguistics , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , political science , physics , geometry , law , optics
The formal analysis of idioms has been oscillating between approaches that emphasize the unit-like character of idioms and approaches that focus on the autonomy of the idioms' parts. In this paper, we summarize the main arguments for and against these two positions to then propose an account that tries to capture and combine the insights and advantages of both types of analysis. The resulting theory is heavily influenced by the approach taken in Riehemann (2001).